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The community tab brings a more personalized interaction hub to your subscribers and viewers. When you use this feature, your subscribers will be able to see your posts in their feeds as they’re scrolling through YouTube. We encourage creators to take advantage of the community tab to highlight behind the scene pictures, footage, and more…

It is no surprise that YouTube is moving toward stricter community guidelines for content that is targeting families and kids in response to inappropriate content being filtered into the YouTube Kids app and advertisers leaving the platform. There are different consequences for community vs. Ad policies, but they are both making an impact on family…

Channels on YouTube are seeing channel and content removal and/or demonetization. We have observed a few of these side effects of the rapid YouTube platform changes since late 2017. The changes were initiated due to the yellow monetization guidelines prompted by inappropriate content being filtered into the YouTube Kids app and advertisers leaving the platform,…

Update: 02/21/2018 4 pm EST: The service issues on YouTube earlier today are fixed! Most channels are able to upload, monetize, and use all features as normal. MCN backend features are also fixed. YouTube is rolling out the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) changes to the platform today. Because of these changes, many YouTube features are…

Greetings, everyone! YouTube announced a new policy where channels under 1,000 subs and 4,000 watch hours (240,000 watch minutes) will be removed from the YouTube Partner Program (YTPP). This replaces the recently enacted policy of required 10,000 lifetime views before joining the YTPP. If you are part of an MCN (Multi-Channel Network), you are generally required…

Earlier this week, YouTube launched a new program for gaming creators known as sponsorships. Those familiar with subscriptions on Twitch TV will feel right at home with this new feature, now available for your YouTube channel. In similar fashion, fans can now sponsor a channel for $4.99 per month (with varying rates for those outside…

Screenwave Media has an update on Use Your Words! If you’ve received one of our Steam/PC codes and are looking to stream yourself playing Use Your Words or want to post coverage of it on YouTube, there’s an additional step you should take. When you first turn on the game, we recommend you capturing footage…

Today at Screenwave Media, we’ve announced that we are giving away Use Your Words Steam/PC codes! Whether you’re a Twitch streamer, YouTube creator, or gaming press, we are excited for you to try out Use Your Words and share it with your viewers. For the past two years, veteran game developer Julian Spillane and YouTube…

THE NEXT BIG PARTY GAME IS COMING THIS MARCH 2017! Use Your Words turns your sense of humor into comedy gold. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – Indie game developer Smiling Buddha Games aims to redefine the party game genre with Use Your Words, a hysterical digital party game to be released in March 2017. Players of all…

YouTube is introducing Super Chat, an alternative method of monetizing your livestreams! With Super Chat, your viewers can “pin” their messages to the top of the chat window by paying for preferred placement for a specified duration of time for each monetary donation. On February 28th, the love/hate Fan Funding is going away. Super Chat…